PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
Received January 24, 1768. 
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I. An Account of the Eruption of Mount 
Vefuvius, in 1767 .* In a Letter to the 
Earl of Morton, Prefident of the Royal 
Society , from the Honourable William 
Hamilton, His Majefys Envoy Extra- 
ordinary at Naples. 
Naples, December 29, 1767. 
My Lord, 
Read Feb. n.riTHE favourable reception, which my 
1768. acC ount of laft year’s eruption of 
Mount Vefuvius met with from your Lordfhip, the 
approbation which the Royal Society was pleafed to 
fhew, by having ordered the fame to be printed in 
Vol. LVIII. B their 
